Rspec request.env wrong number of arguments

Question

This is my code:

before(:each) do
  request.env['HTTP_AUTHORIZATION'] = ActionController::HttpAuthentication::Token.encode_credentials(api_key.access_token)
end

My test was supposed to pass but it is displaying this error:

Failure/Error: request.env['HTTP_AUTHORIZATION'] = ActionController::HttpAuthentication::Token.encode_credentials("#{api_key.access_token}")
 ArgumentError:
   wrong number of arguments (0 for 1..2) 

• Gems:

  rspec-rails version = 2.14.1.

  rails verison = 4

  mongoid from 'git://github.com/mongoid/mongoid.git'

Answer 1

The request method you are accessing in your test is documented at http://rubydoc.info/gems/rack-test/0.6.2/Rack/Test/Session:request and expects 1 or 2 arguments as the error indicates. You're getting an error on request.env because you're invoking request with no arguments.